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  • Mining in Logarithmic Space (2021)
  • Ouroboros Chronos: Permissionless Clock Synchronization via Proof-of-Stake (2021)
  • Filling the Tax Gap via Programmable Money (2021)
  • Conclave: A Collective Stake Pool Protocol (2021)
  • The Velvet Path to Superlight Blockchain Clients (2021)
  • Coalition-Safe Equilibria with Virtual Payoffs (2021)
  • Translation Certification for Smart Contracts (Extended Abstract) (2021)
  • Djed: A Formally Verified Crypto-Backed Pegged Algorithmic Stablecoin (2021)
  • Composition with Knowledge Assumptions (2021)
  • A Rational Protocol Treatment of 51% Attacks (2021)
  • W-OTS(+) up my Sleeve! A Hidden Secure Fallback for Cryptocurrency Wallets (2021)
  • Probability of double spend attack for network with non-zero synchronization time (2021)
  • Practical Settlement Bounds for Proof-of-Work Blockchains (2021)
  • Mithril: Stake-based Threshold Multisignatures (2021)
  • Kachina - Foundations of Private Smart Contracts (2021)
  • Consistency for Functional Encryption (2021)
  • Babel Fees via Limited Liabilities (2021)
  • Securing Proof-of-Work Ledgers via Checkpointing (2021)
  • RPPLNS: Pay-per-last-N-shares with a Randomised Twist (2021)
  • How to Prove Work: With Time or Memory (Extended Abstract) (2021)
  • Cardano Disaster Recovery Plan (2021)
  • Standardized crypto-loans on the Cardano blockchain (2021)
  • SoK: Communication Across Distributed Ledgers (2021)
  • SoK: Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless PoW Cryptocurrencies (2021)
  • Post-Quantum Security of the Bitcoin Backbone and Quantum Multi-Solution Bernoulli Search (2021)
  • Payment Trees: Low Collateral Payments for Payment Channel Networks (2021)
  • Pay To Win: Cheap, Crowdfundable, Cross-chain Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on PoW Cryptocurrencies (2021)
  • Multi-instance Publicly Verifiable Time-lock Puzzle and its Applications (2021)
  • Mining for Privacy: How to Bootstrap a Snarky Blockchain (2021)
  • Hydra: Fast Isomorphic State Channels (2021)
  • Efficient State Management in Distributed Ledgers (2021)
  • BRICK: Asynchronous Payment Channels (2021)
  • Another Look at Extraction and Randomization of Groth's zk-SNARK (2021)
  • Security Limitations of Classical-Client Delegated Quantum Computing (2020)
  • Lightweight Virtual Payment Channels (2020)
  • Zendoo: a zk-SNARK Verifiable Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol Enabling Decoupled and Decentralized Sidechains (2020)
  • Universal Composition with Global Subroutines: Capturing Global Setup within plain UC (2020)
  • Tight Consistency Bounds for Bitcoin (2020)
  • Ledger Combiners for Fast Settlement (2020)
  • Consistency of Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Concurrent Honest Slot Leaders (2020)
  • Blockchains from Non-Idealized Hash Functions (2020)
  • UTXOma:UTXO with Multi-Asset Support (2020)
  • UTxO- vs account-based smart contract blockchain programming paradigms (2020)
  • Timed Signatures and Zero-Knowledge Proofs –Timestamping in the Blockchain Era– (2020)
  • Native Custom Tokens in the Extended UTXO Model (2020)
  • Models of distributed proof generation for ZK-SNARK-based blockchains (2020)
  • Efficient static analysis of Marlowe contracts (2020)
  • A Gas-Efficient Superlight Bitcoin Client in Solidity (2020)
  • Upper Bound Probability of Double Spend Attack on SPECTRE (2020)
  • Updatable Blockchains (2020)
  • Reward Sharing Schemes for Stake Pools (2020)
  • Account Management in Proof of Stake Ledgers (2020)
  • The Architecture of Decentralised Finance Platforms: A New Open Finance Paradigm (2020)
  • Smart Contract Derivatives (2020)
  • Introduction to the design of the Data Diffusion and Networking for Cardano Shelley* (2020)
  • Flexible Formality: Practical Experience with Agile Formal Methods (2020)
  • Consensus Redux: Distributed Ledgers in the Face of Adversarial Supremacy (2020)
  • Bitcoin Crypto–Bounties for Quantum Capable Adversaries (2020)
  • SoK: A Taxonomy of Cryptocurrency Wallets (2020)
  • Uncontrolled Randomness in Blockchains: Covert Bulletin Board for Illicit Activity (2020)
  • Full Analysis of Nakamoto Consensus in Bounded-Delay Networks (2020)
  • The Extended UTXO Model (2020)
  • Stake Shift in Major Cryptocurrencies: An Empirical Study (2020)
  • Proof-of-Burn (2020)
  • One-shot Signatures and Applications to Hybrid Quantum/Classical Authentication (2020)
  • Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work (2020)
  • Marlowe: implementing and analysing financial contracts on blockchain (2020)
  • Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts (2020)
  • The Combinatorics of the Longest-Chain Rule: Linear Consistency for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains (2020)
  • Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocols with Near-Optimal Throughput (2020)
  • A Type and Scope Safe Universe of Syntaxes with Binding: Their Semantics and Proofs (2020)
  • Sonic: Zero-Knowledge SNARKs from Linear-Size Universal and Updateable Structured Reference Strings (2019)
  • Unraveling recursion: compiling an IR with recursion to System F (2019)
  • System F in Agda, for fun and profit (2019)
  • A Composable Security Treatment of the Lightning Network (2019)
  • Proof-of-Stake Sidechains (2019)
  • Ouroboros Crypsinous: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake (2019)
  • Functional Blockchain Contracts (2019)
  • Cryptocurrency Egalitarianism: A Quantitative Approach (2019)
  • Compact Storage of Superblocks for NIPoPoW Applications (2019)
  • SoK: A Taxonomy for Layer-2 Scalability Related Protocols for Cryptocurrencies (2019)
  • Decreasing Security Threshold Against Double Spend Attack in Networks with Slow Synchronization (2019)
  • The Promise of Blockchain Technology for Global Securities and Derivatives Markets: The New Financial Ecosystem and the ‘Holy Grail’ of Systemic Risk Containment (2019)
  • ROYALE: A Framework for Universally Composable CardGames with Financial Rewards and Penalties Enforcement (2019)
  • Proof-of-Work Sidechains (2019)
  • A Treasury System for Cryptocurrencies: Enabling Better Collaborative Intelligence (2019)
  • A Formal Treatment of Hardware Wallets (2019)
  • Leakage-Resilient Cryptography from Puncturable Primitives and Obfuscation (2018)
  • Parallel Chains: Improving Throughput and Latency of Blockchain Protocols via Parallel Composition (2018)
  • Marlowe: financial contracts on blockchain (2018)
  • Comparison of Block Expectation Time for Various Consensus Algorithms (2018)
  • Ouroboros-BFT: A Simple Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Protocol (2018)
  • Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability (2018)
  • Self-Reproducing Coins as Universal Turing Machine (2018)
  • Impossibility on Tamper-Resilient Cryptography with Uniqueness Properties (2018)
  • Ghosts of Departed Proofs (Functional Pearls) (2018)
  • Formal specification for a Cardano wallet (2018)
  • 21 - Bringing Down the Complexity: Fast Composable Protocols for Card Games Without Secret State (2018)
  • TwinsCoin: A Cryptocurrency via Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake (2018)
  • Stake-Bleeding Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Blockchains (2018)
  • Number of Confirmation Blocks for Bitcoin and GHOST Consensus Protocols on Networks with Delayed Message Delivery: Extended Abstract (2018)
  • Multi-mode Cryptocurrency Systems (2018)
  • MARS: Monetized Ad-hoc Routing System (A Position Paper) (2018)
  • Ouroboros Praos: An adaptively-secure, semi-synchronous proof-of-stake protocol (2018)
  • Memory Lower Bounds of Reductions Revisited (2018)
  • Chimeric Ledgers: Translating and Unifying UTXO-based and Account-based Cryptocurrencies (2018)
  • But Why Does It Work? A Rational Protocol Design Treatment of Bitcoin. (2018)
  • Kaleidoscope: An Efficient Poker Protocol with Payment Distribution and Penalty Enforcement (2018)
  • Towards a Smart Contract-based, Decentralized, Public-Key Infrastructure (2017)
  • The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol with Chains of Variable Difficulty (2017)
  • Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol (2017)
  • SCRAPE: Scalable Randomness Attested by Public Entities (2017)
  • Improving Authenticated Dynamic Dictionaries, with Applications to Cryptocurrencies (2017)
  • An Ontology for Smart Contracts (2017)
  • A Proposal for An Ethereum Classic Treasury System (2017)
  • Scripting smart contracts for distributed ledger technology (2016)